Death Of Stalin stuff. It's the gravitas of the staging and the ludicrousness of the words

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6h ago

holy shit -- Schiff ties Trump's judicial nominees in knots by asking them who won the 2016 before *before* asking them who won in 2020, which results in them sounding like election deniers about Trump's victories!

Fucking fuck's sake man what in God's name is the fucking matter with you? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Kemi Badenoch gives former neo-Nazi advisory role after he withdraws as Tory candidate

Joshua Bonehill-Paine says Conservative leader has asked him to work with party’s culture and integration commission

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The BBC hate us so much that they only had me on Question Time 38 times and have had Zia Yusuf on 8 times in less than two years, despite the fact that nobody even voted for him. Now that's what I call bias.

Jesus fucking Christ, Kemi! Too proud to back away from a dumb fucking decision. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Badenoch gives former neo-Nazi advisory role after he withdraws as Tory candidate

Joshua Bonehill-Paine, who was convicted of harassing Jewish MP, says Badenoch has asked him to work with party’s culture and integration commission

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You can see why Kemi's struggling tbf

But you won't know about it probably, because large proportions of the US and World media are still following all the silly things Trump & his representatives say so that their repeated failures aren't noticed.

Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social · 9h ago

Notice DOJ doesn't talk about its efforts to obtain state voter files anymore. They are 0-20 in those cases and today is the beginning of the quiet period -- states can no longer do systematic removals of names from the voter rolls. TLDR: We won!🥳

Notice DOJ doesn't talk about its efforts to obtain state voter files anymore. They are 0-20 in those cases and today is the beginning of the quiet period -- states can no longer do systematic removals of names from the voter rolls. TLDR: We won!🥳

The experience of being chased by a murderous kamikaze drone, a flying machine that behaves as if it were alive, is not one that humans are equipped to understand: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The Dystopian Future Dawns in Kherson

Putin’s human safari in Ukraine is the beginning of a grim new normal.

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Surprise!!

Alex Partridge@alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 8h ago

Joshua Bonehill-Paine steps back from being a Conservative council candidate following backlash

And now she can get questioned on the dubious content of his stupid videos?

James Ball@jamesrball.com · 7h ago

Having said it was okay for Bonehill-Paine to be a councillor because it was just bins, instead of dropping him, Badenoch has given him an advisory role – *after* Jewish groups refused to meet with him? Does she just never want this story to end, or....what.

There's another nationwide blackout in Georgia. 3rd in 13 days.

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Gianni Infantino 'offers Morocco World Cup final' in exchange for support - AOL

Morocco will co-host the 2030 World Cup alongside Spain and Portugal and Gianni Infantino has reportedly offered them the chance to stage the final - on one condition

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This is definitely a candidate for one of those 'how it started, how it's going' memes.....

Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · yesterday

Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

To be fair, “Councillors and council elections don’t matter” are a load-bearing part of the “Kemi Badenoch is doing well and the Conservative party’s prospects under her are looking good” thesis.

Chris Terry-Enescu@cjterry.bsky.social · 15h ago

It's OK for criminal ex-neo Nazis to run your bins is a hell of a line.

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Rafael Behr@rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 15h ago

On the tragedy of US democracy captured by human stupidity when the world needs leadership on machine intelligence. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

On the tragedy of US democracy captured by human stupidity when the world needs leadership on machine intelligence. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Democracy is at stake when foolish humans bet on machines being intelligent | Rafael Behr

We need an enlightened US president to make the case for global AI regulation. Donald Trump is the exact opposite of what is needed, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

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Then I hope she'll ban her party from using them. She could make a public commitment and challenge other parties to match it. The Tory Party has got into a deplorable habit of issuing doctored & dishonest videos in recent elections. If Badenoch means what she says, she should commit to ending this.

11th Division football!

FC Community Of Liverpool@fccommunity.bsky.social · 24h ago

It all starts on Friday!

Again this goes back to one of my overarching points. What does this guy believe in? What is his positive case? Or is it just scrapping with his perceived enemies?

John Oxley@joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · yesterday

I just don't think any of this is particularly edifying and we should have strong boundaries within politics about abuse. And doing this stuff is just not indicative of sound judgement?

Universities cannot make money teaching home undergrads or doing funded research. Indeed, those run at a large loss. Only teaching international students make sense in any way. The logical endpoint is taking only international students, reducing research and moving many ops out of the UK altogether.

Interesting passage in the mea culpa on antisemitism from Tory council candidate at centre of selection row, supporting the view - fiercely denied by most on left at the time - that Corbyn was a magnet drawing antisemitic cranks into Labour.

Just thinking how Johnson spoke like a newspaper column — colourful, bantering bullshit — whereas Badenoch speaks like the worst kind of comment section: querulous, chippy, pedantic (I'm just talking tone here, not content)

The High Court also heard RTC leader Ben Cullen had threatened physical violence to a resident removing flags, boasting that he was a “violent criminal” who had served 15 years in prison. Full report in today’s Clarion: oxfordclarion.uk/the-clarion-...

The Clarion, 4 August 2026

We're doing a rain dance. You? While we wait for some sorely needed water, here is some news, not all of it cheerful. Including less than savoury details about Raise the Colours; celebrating Oxford Ci...

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Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

saying this not as a dig to Paul but as a general point, but it does worry me that we've ended up in a world where the two options are seemingly "leftist bubble" or "oh hey the nazis are here" - surely we should be able to have a politically heterogenous platform with tight rules on hate speech etc?

Paul Bernal@paulbernal.bsky.social · 2d ago

The new CEO of Bluesky wants to change Bluesky from being a leftist bubble. The thing is, there’s nothing wrong with being a leftist bubble: the idea that everything has to be all-encompassing and suitable for everyone is a trap. 🧵 1/4

Does she realise Dunkirk wouldn't have even been possible if French forces had surrendered as opposed to fighting a rearguard action which allowed the BEF to assemble in Dunkirk and the evacuation flotilla to be formed?

Roland Smith@rolandmcs.bsky.social · yesterday

The war. It always comes back to the war. That happened long before they were born.